The Recording Academy's Black Music Collective will honor music legends Pharrell Williams, Brandy, and Kirk Franklin at the fourth annual Recording Academy Honors on Jan. 29, 2026.

Dictionaries define things. It’s their job. So when dictionary.com pronounced '6-7” as their 2025 word of the year, you’d ...

Rolling Stone staffers pick their favorite albums of 2025, from Bad Bunny to Clipse to Rosalia to Taylor Swift to Wednesday to Geese to Lady Gaga ...

Rolling Stone ranks the best Afropop songs of the year featuring Adekunle Gold, Rema, Moily, Theodora, Tyla, Davido, Bien, ...

DMC’s Queens classic to De La Soul’s subversive storytelling, to "Trap Christmas"...rap has always celebrated the holidays on its own terms.

Hip-hop was created in 1973, and during that decade, it was a genre still in its early stages that was more DJ-centric with focuses on b-boy dances and live performances. However, by the time the ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...

"What You Saying" samples the 2014 track "Love Story" by French singer Indila. It is the first song off the rapper's next ...

We’re all still trying to figure out exactly what it means,” they told us of this year’s “linguistic time capsule.” But ...

Chance The Rapper has teamed up with Jeremih once again following their holiday mixtape Merry Christmas Lil' Mama, which ...

Secret Santa caps a busy year for Chance the Rapper, following the August premiere of his new album Star Line, his first full-length in six years, and an accompanying tour. Jeremih’s last project was ...